Reincarnated As The Monkey Queen

Strings That Bind

Y/n's P.O.V
Here we are, me and MK, sitting on top of Flower Fruit Mountain.

The wind was blowing, the sun was shining, and I was 9 months pregnant, looking like I'm about to pop any day now.

"Okay, MK. Monkey Class is still canceled until this baby pops out, so today's training will be with a clone again." I plucked out a hair and made a clone of myself.

MK shakes his head, looking like he didn't get much sleep. "You got it, mom. What's the lesson?"

I furrowed my eyebrows at him before grabbing the staff and attached a flag to it. "You plant your Monkey Flag on your Monkey Mountain, and you win. If my clone plants it on my "Way Better Monkey Mountain," and I win! Ready?"

"Ohohoho, I've never been ready-er. No holding back, LE'GO!" MK says dizzyily.

"MK, have you been getting enough sleep, young man?" I placed my arms on my hips, giving him a stern look.

"Um...uh..., less talky, more trainy, mom. I already said the thing." MK smirks.

I shook my head but chuckled, letting my clone throw the staff at MK.

MK goes flying back while pouting. "What?! Hey! No fair! I thought it was "Keep-Aways", not "Throws-at-mes"! Well if you wanna play hard-ball, get ready to play har—."

My clone tried to snatch the staff away, MK kicked it back, but my clone started to catch up to him while MK was laughing manically.

"You're getting much faster, sweetie!" I shouted.

MK smiles. "Yeah, I--."

"But you gotta focus more." I shouted at him.

All of a sudden, my clone and MK started wrestling for the flag, and again, MK was able to push the clone away before summoning his cloud to fly to his part of the mountain.

"You were saying?" MK laughs. "Here... comes... Monkie--."

I smirked, making my clone disperse before I quickly flew in on my cloud and snatched the staff away. "Queen!"

I threw the staff all the way to my part of the mountain, along with MK.

"Hey, no fair! You can't just cut in at the last second! Plus, you're pregnant! And you said "no holding back", but you were holding back the whole time when I was right about to win." MK whines.

I helped MK up, dusting off his clothes.

"Yeah, I'm your mother. I'm allowed to cut in whenever I want. We gotta keep something for you to look up to." I sighed, frowning while looking at MK. "Besides, I'm not the only one holding back. Just a little, but that's all I'm saying. If you tapped into your monkey form, you could've won."

MK froze in place, looking down at the ground.

"MK, sweetie?" I gave him a concerned look.

"I'm fine, i-it's fine. I—." MK stutters out before we notice a magic stone on the ground.

"It's our stone." I picked up the stone and sat it up right. "This stone is very special to me. Wanna know why?"

"Uh, because you were born from it?" MK looks at me in confusion.

I chuckled, shaking my head. "Yes, but no."

"Then why is it so special to you? I wanna know." MK said in a desperate tone.

"Because you came from it. My boy, my beautiful boy, my son. If you weren't born from this stone, I would've never got to meet you." I held MK's chin up. "I know it's hard, and I know you want to outrun it, but your monkey form, one of these days, we'll find out what it means."